218 On the Propagation of Trees by Cuttings in Summer, 



leaves were not wetted. These were in the slightest degree 

 faded, though they were fully exposed to the sun ; and roots were 

 emitted in about fifteen days. I subjected a few cuttings, taken from 

 the bearing branches of a Mulberry tree, to the same mode of 

 management, and with the same result ; and I think it extremely 

 probable, that the different varieties of Camellia, and trees of almost 

 every species, exclusive of the Fir tribe, might be propagated with 

 perfect success and facility by the same means. 



Evergreen trees, of some species, possess the power of ripening 

 their fruit during Winter. The common Ivy and the Loquat, are 

 well known examples of this ; and this circumstance, combined with 

 many others, led me to infer that the leaves of such trees possess 

 in a second year the same, or nearly the same power, as in the first. 

 I therefore planted, about a month ago, some cuttings of the old 

 double blossomed white and Warratah Camellia, having reduced 

 the wood to little more than half an inch in length, and cut it off 

 obliquely, so as to present a long surface of it ; and I reduced it 

 further by paring it very thin, at and near to its lower extremities. 

 The leaves continue to look perfectly fresh ; and the buds in more 

 than one instance have produced shoots of more than an inch in 

 length, and apparently possessing perfect health and much vigour. 

 Water has been very abundantly given ; because I conceived that 

 the flow of arterial sap from the leaf would be so great, comparatively 

 with the quantity of the bark and alburnum of the cuttings, as to 

 preclude the possibility of the rotting of these. 



The cuttings above described present, in the organization, a con- 

 siderable resemblance to seedling treesat different periods, of the 

 growth of the latter. The bud very closely resembles the plumule ; 

 and the. leaf, the cotyledon, extended into a seed leaf; and the 

 organ, which has been, and is called, a radicle, is certainly a 

 caudex, and not a root. It is capable of being made to extend, in 

 some cases, to more than two hundred times its first length, between 

 two articulations, a power which is not possessed in any degree by 



